In the article it is argued that contemporary fatherhood and masculinity differ increasingly from hegemonic masculinity according to which men are primarily responsible for ensuring the financial basis of the family. The article "Fathers on Parental Leave in Denmark", based on interviews with 15 Danish...
One reason for this could be that, despite generous parental leave policies for all genders, the majority of parental leave in Denmark is still taken by women. The average father takes only 30 days off work, while mothers take almost 300 days on average. According toa recent Harvard Business ...
Beginning in 1994 a parental-leave program in Denmark offered any parent the opportunity to take up to a full year off work, paid, for every child under the age of nine. The researchers find that many nurses in Denmark took advantage of this program. Nurses, however, could not be replaced...
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(30% of earnings); Denmark was allowing 18 weeks of maternity leave (100% of earnings) and 10 weeks for each parent as parental leave (paid full-time). In Canada, 12 months of partially paid maternity and parental leaves were available; in the U.S., 12 weeks of unpaid leave were ...
The analysis focuses on political decision processes on parental leave in Denmark 1901-2002 with the political meaning of gender as the main perspective. S... Anette Borchorst - Aarhus Universitetsforlag 被引量: 8发表: 2003年 "No, Gender doesn't make a Difference…?" Studying Negotiations an...
All of them have introduced special incentives for fathers to use leave after having experienced that simply offering shared parental leave was not enough to get fathers to use it. Norway was the first country to introduce a fathers' quota in 1993, followed by Sweden 2 years later, Denmark ...
Parental leave is a complex area of public policy. Concerns include health protection for working mothers, equal employment opportunities for women, access... Galtry,J. - 《Journal of Family Issues》 被引量: 103发表: 2005年 Employment Protection and the Consequences for Displaced Workers: A Comp...
Workers' rights Parental leave is an entitlement under the Fair Work Act 2009 for employees who have or will have responsibility for the care of a child. Under the National employment standards (Nes), parental leave is taken on the birth of a child or the adoption of a child under 16 (...
However, we do not find support for asserting that the couples with greatest gender equality, in which fathers take longer leave than the policy reserves, are the most stable unions, as the pattern is not uniform in the three countries. We attribute this to the fact that gender equality ...